919 269 York State Prison.

The Refugee troops, I believe, in general did not receive pay or clothing, but they all drew provisions.

[margin: Post] Mrs. Day's Tavern stood the first house below Peter Myers on the left hand going to New York. that is, on the east side of the old Post road. I don't know whether she ever kept Morris's house for Genl. Knyphausen when it was his head quarters. Her name is Cintje Day, and she gave name to the Cintje apple which first grew in her gar -den or in her place.

October 27th. Mr. Randall of 115th St. East river - opposite Randall's and Wards Island: "I remember Mrs Day who kept a tavern on the old Post road under Harlem Heights. She had a daughter who

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270 920 married one Abraham (?) King, a shipping merchant of New York. A few years since one of King's sons built a house upon his grandmother Day's place which, I believe, he has since sold. I think there are several grandsons of Mrs. Day named King, now living in New York.

On the 22d of July 1781, I saw a Refugee who was taking horses across Haerlem river, chased by the Americans and French, but he escaped with the horses. At this time there was a British battery where Judge Graham's house now is, and a fort and cannon upon Snake Hill.

The old road at Morrisania, I think, passed along the Hill down.

During the hard winter a British vessel was frozen up opposite my Brother's near the old Ferry.